In other
words,
I choose because I choose. If there are justifications for my
choice, it isn't a choice: it's a decision. If there are
reasons for my choice, it isn't a choice: it's a decision.
Justifications and reasons have no
freely
in them. Furthermore, justifications and reasons are
considerations. To choose is to select freely and after
consideration.

All that said, this essay,
Being And Acting
Out-Here:
Presence Of Self
Revisited,
fleshes out one yardstick which is useful to consider before selecting
freely.

Transformation,
it could be said, is a matter of speaking
transformation
(that's not someone else's quote - it's something I said). Granted,
that's a tautology. A tautology is when something is defined in
terms of itself - as in
"Transformation
is a matter of speaking
transformation.".
Some purists may extend this definition by saying a tautology is when
when something is defined redundantly and / or
unnecessarily in terms of itself.

That's an appreciation of
presence of Self
at an entirely new level - hence the new, current yardstick for
choosing: "Will this (ie whatever I'm choosing) facilitate being and
acting
out-here?".
Or not.